Minnesota Legislature
Retiring members say their goodbyes at close of 2024 session
By Mike Cook
As is tradition, once members have finished months of debating one another over myriad bills, some House members who have opted not to seek re-election said goodbye to the body Monday.
Eleven members took the opportunity to reflect on their careers, share future plans and offer advice for representatives hoping to return in 2025 and people who want to become part of the body.
Recent Dailies
With finish line in mind, ways and means committee melds eight supplemental spending bills into three
By Rob Hubbard
There was a lot of merging traffic at Thursday’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing.
With less than four weeks remaining in the 2024 session, the agenda was designe...
House workforce panel approves proposed updates to paid leave law
By Tim Walker
It’s been nearly a year since the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act became law, and officials from the department in charge of implementing it are asking for changes to help man...
Bill to update law around family court proceedings about ‘what’s best for the kids’
By Tim Walker
Corporations have mission statements defining its business, objectives, and how it will reach those goals.
The state may create something like a mission statement to guide f...
House passes protections for renters embroiled in utility disputes
By Rob Hubbard If you’re a renter, how you pay for your power, heat and water can be problematic if your landlord does the billing instead of the utilities. There have been instances in wh...Education policy conference committee lays out differences in House, Senate bills
By Brian Basham
With a laundry list of differences, the education policy conference committee met Wednesday to walk-through the differences between the House and Senate bills.
Largely, the ...
Northern MN helium discovery prompts proposed regulatory framework for gas, oil production
By Margaret Stevens
Perhaps best known for filling party balloons and causing Mickey Mouse voices, helium is a critical element for many industries ranging from semiconductors to fiber optic cables...
Week in Review: April 15-19
By HPIS Staff
A look back at what happened in the Minnesota House of Representatives the week of April 15-19.
House Taxes Committee sends its final bill onward
By Rob Hubbard
While the 2023 tax law was mostly about targeted tax relief for lower earners and higher tax rates for those at the other end of the income spectrum, the product of this year’s ...
Health panel approves supplemental budget bill; next stop, ways and means
By Miranda Bryant The House Health Finance and Policy Committee passed a $43 million supplemental health budget bill Friday on a party-line vote. Sponsored by Rep. Tina Liebling (DFL-Rocheste...House panel OK’s finance bill that sponsor says aims to tackle a Minnesota ‘workforce in crisis’
By Tim Walker
Legislation to distribute $16.75 million in onetime fiscal year 2025 funding among more than 40 organizations and municipalities for job training programs and other workforce de...
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House closes 2024 session in chaotic fashion, trading bonding for budget boosts
By Rob Hubbard
It was a session of modest ambitions.
After 2023 produced a record $72 billion in biennial funding, Minnesota’s legislative leaders were dampening expectations for anything ...
Ways and Means Committee OKs proposed $512 million supplemental budget on party-line vote
By Mike Cook
Meeting more needs or fiscal irresponsibility is one way to sum up the differences among the two parties on a supplemental spending package a year after a $72 billion state budg...
